DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Bristol

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Bristol is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 77 80
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 65 8 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.94% 0.70% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 0.75% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 54 7 42
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,000 £57,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,250 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -16.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £86,875 £84,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,250 £87,500
South West median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +30.77% -5.45% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 3,133 1,060 2,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 92.33% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,339 791 1,352
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,200 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.52% -8.73% -7.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,125 £70,313
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 15 October 2026, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bristol region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 65 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (36.92%) AWS
3 18 (27.69%) Azure
3 18 (27.69%) CI/CD
4 15 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (23.08%) Terraform
5 13 (20.00%) Agile
6 11 (16.92%) Docker
7 10 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 9 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (13.85%) Observability
8 9 (13.85%) SaaS
8 9 (13.85%) Software Engineering
9 8 (12.31%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
10 7 (10.77%) Kubernetes
10 7 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (9.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (9.23%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (9.23%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (9.23%) GitLab
11 6 (9.23%) Network Management
11 6 (9.23%) Secrets Management
12 5 (7.69%) Business Continuity
12 5 (7.69%) Git
12 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
13 4 (6.15%) AI
13 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.08%) Confluence
1 2 (3.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 24 (36.92%) AWS
2 18 (27.69%) Azure
3 9 (13.85%) SaaS
4 6 (9.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (9.23%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.62%) GCP
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.08%) GitHub
7 2 (3.08%) Route 53
7 2 (3.08%) Serverless
7 2 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) DNS
1 3 (4.62%) Firewall
1 3 (4.62%) Network Security
2 2 (3.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.54%) DocumentDB
2 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.54%) MySQL
2 1 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) GitLab
2 5 (7.69%) Git
3 3 (4.62%) git-flow
3 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.08%) JIRA
5 1 (1.54%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.54%) Postman
General
1 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (3.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (1.54%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (3.08%) .NET
2 2 (3.08%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.08%) RESTful
3 1 (1.54%) Next.js
3 1 (1.54%) Node.js
3 1 (1.54%) React
3 1 (1.54%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.15%) PropTech
3 2 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (27.69%) CI/CD
3 15 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (20.00%) Agile
5 10 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 9 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (13.85%) Observability
6 9 (13.85%) Software Engineering
7 8 (12.31%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (9.23%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (9.23%) Network Management
9 6 (9.23%) Secrets Management
10 5 (7.69%) Business Continuity
11 4 (6.15%) AI
11 4 (6.15%) Configuration Management
11 4 (6.15%) ITIL
11 4 (6.15%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.15%) Bash
2 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.62%) Python
3 2 (3.08%) Bicep
3 2 (3.08%) Java
3 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (16.92%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Grafana
2 4 (6.15%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (3.08%) Ansible
3 2 (3.08%) Puppet
3 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.08%) Atlassian
2 2 (3.08%) Google
2 2 (3.08%) Red Hat